Adam Lenz | Music in the Galleries

Music in the Galleries

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

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Music in the Galleries is an ongoing concert series activating gallery spaces across the museum with live performances by regional musicians. Performances are often organized in conjunction with special exhibitions or in dialogue with artwork in the Wadsworth's permanent collection. The concerts present music from a wide range of time periods, musical genres, and cultures, building on the Wadsworth's encyclopedic approach to collecting and exhibiting works of art.

The Music in the Galleries series is presented with support from the Saunders Foundation Endowment for Music and the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum.  

2025

Brandon Lopez, double bass

Aidai Kalmamatova, Kyrgyz komuz, jetigen, and ooz komuz

Héloïse Degrugillier, bagpipe, recorders, pipe and tabor, and flute

2024

Dovas Lietuvninkas, trumpet

Lorena Garay and Eugenio Huanca, guitar and panpipes

Aekyung Kim, viola

Hideki Yamaya, lute and cittern

2023

Katie Kennedy, cello

Duo Alterity

Allison Hughes, flute

Joseph Van Doran, classical guitar

Drake Smith and the Birth of the Cool Ensemble

Emma Chisholm

Kurt Eckhardt

Mike Leventhal

Haneef Nelson

Roger Post

Jon Saxon

Gary Seinkiewicz

Andrew Wilcox

Rich Zurkowski

Chia-Yu Joy Lu and Flora Gu, erhu and guzheng

Entwyned Early Music

Dee Hansen, Baroque flute

Neal Humphreys, viola de gamba

Eric Hansen, baroque guitar

Pablo Issa and Eugenio Figueroa, cello and viola

Oboe Duo Agosto

Ling-Fei Kang, oboe

Charles Huang, oboe and English horn

2022

Vera Meyer, glass harmonica

Voce Concitato

Alice Matteson, voice

Meredith Neumann, voice

Noah Hay, voice

Matthew Cramer, voice

Stephen Gamboa-Diaz, harpsichord

Sam DeCaprio, cello

Jaclyn Jones, classical guitar

Aidai Kalmamatova playing the jetigen in Avery Court, 2025. Image courtesy of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Program images, Music in the Galleries, 2022-2024. Images by Adam Lenz.

Sunday Serenades

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

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Music in the Galleries is an ongoing concert series activating gallery spaces across the museum with live performances by regional musicians. Performances are often organized in conjunction with special exhibitions or in dialogue with artwork in the Wadsworth's permanent collection. The concerts present music from a wide range of time periods, musical genres, and cultures, building on the Wadsworth's encyclopedic approach to collecting and exhibiting works of art.

The Sunday Serenades Chamber Music Series is made possible in part by The Saunders Foundation Music Endowment at the Wadsworth Atheneum; Nany D. Grover in honor of Leonid Sigal, concertmaster, Hartford Symphony Orchestra; and Suzanne Hopgood in memory of Frank Lord.

2024–2025 Season

Vibrant Visions (forthcoming)

A European Sketchbook

Voices of the Americas

2023–2024 Season

Avery 90

Art in Song

Myths & Legends

2022–2023 Season

Springtime at the Museum

Winter Melodies

Fall Fantasies